landshark

noun 3

Definitions

noun

1

A customs officer.

2

A swindler or fraudster.

3

A landgrabber.

By the Europeans, Sir, to gratify the lust of the landsharks and land-jobbers who hungered after the lands of the Natives: it was to satisfy their greed, and not for the benefit of the Natives in any way.

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